"Clique": kleek? klick?

[Wilson Gray]

On 1/3/06, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:
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> Click, nitch, feesh here.
>
>
I'm down with that. But, "fiche" raises - or should that be "begs"?
;-) another question: is "fiche" not a count noun? I have always known
it to be a count noun: ten fiches. But, after having heard tens of
thousands of examples of, e.g  "ten sheets/pieces/layers/hits, etc.
_of fiche_" from people of all age groups, including my own of
senior-citizen, all of whom had a least a high-school diploma, I've
begun to fear that the sands of language change have once again
shifted under my feet.

-Wilson Gray


> FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
> > For me, it's:
> > click
> > nitch
> > and fish (fiche)
> >
> > I remember years back some people (maybe it was the crotchety old librarians) ranting and raving not only about the vowel, but even the 2nd consonant--that was supposed to be pronounced something like German '(i)ch'.  All those people did was cause themselves headaches, I think.
> > Fritz J
> >
> >
> >>>>JMB at STRADLEY.COM 01/03/06 12:10PM >>>
> >
> >         My wife and I say "klick" and, for the adjective form,
> > "klickie."
> >
> > John Baker
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
> > Of sagehen
> > Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2006 4:02 PM
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> > Subject: Re: "Clique": kleek? klick?
> >
> > Matthew J. Gordon writes:
> >
> >>I don't trust my memory too much on this but I'm pretty sure it was
> >>"klick" when I was in high school in Lincoln NE in the 80s.
> >>
> >>I'd also say that's the dominant pronunciation today at least in the
> >>Midwest. I've done lots of interviews with high school students in
> >>Michigan, Indiana, and Missouri and never hear "kleek" from them.
> >>
> >>For those of you who use the tense vowel, i.e. "kleek", do you have
> >>that in the adjective 'cliquish' too? or maybe you don't use that
> >
> > adjective.
> > ~~~~~~~~~
> > "Kleekish," when used.  Maybe we should say "cliquique!"
> > AM
> >
> > A&M Murie
> > N. Bangor NY
> > sagehen at westelcom.com
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